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Re:Every time you search for a domain on Network Solutions, ... by daniel-cussen on Wednesday January 09, 2008 @11:39AM (#96373)
I had a feeling this could be done to exploit people...

I'm going to try searching a few dumb domains to get them to lose money in ICANN registration fees.

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Re:Every time you search for a domain on Network Solutions, ... by coffeeaddicted on Wednesday January 09, 2008 @01:40PM (#96434)
They don't lose money on that. They just cancel each registration after 5 days and get full refund.
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Re:Every time you search for a domain on Network Solutions, ... by dreish on Wednesday January 09, 2008 @03:23PM (#96499)
I think the point is more that they never pay. If they were actually paying and then getting their money back, they really would lose money on this (in float), and it would be easy enough to write a script that would make them run out of money.
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Re:Every time you search for a domain on Network Solutions, ... by daniel-cussen on Wednesday January 09, 2008 @05:26PM (#96554)
Exactly. They would lose 5 days' interest on the money, and more importantly, whatever money they alloted to this scheme would be exhausted quickly. Then they wouldn't be able to keep doing this.
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Re:Every time you search for a domain on Network Solutions, ... by b3n on Wednesday January 09, 2008 @02:43PM (#96477)
Yeah, if anything it makes them money from ad clicks.
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Re:Every time you search for a domain on Network Solutions, ... by byrneseyeview on Thursday January 10, 2008 @09:46AM (#96782)
I'm pretty sure a customer who got all their clicks from 'auuuedeeekssae.com' and the like would suspect fraud. And if they got all their clicks from 'networksolutionsloveshitler.com' they'd suspect worse.
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Re:Every time you search for a domain on Network Solutions, ... by mwmanning on Thursday January 10, 2008 @06:48PM (#96975)
"And if they got all their clicks from 'networksolutionsloveshitler.com' they'd suspect worse."

applause

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